Who Designed This Underworld Dungeon?
Chapter 86 Settlement Time!

Chapter 86: Chapter 86 Settlement Time!

[Tear-Drop Young Body·First Clear Limited]

[When used at a bonfire, it allows for the reset of all ability values and reassignment]

[Only the warriors who venture into a Dungeon for the first time can use this item, which is extremely rare, so use it with caution]

Upon first reading the introduction of the Tear-Drop Young Body, everyone had a feeling of awe, mixed with confusion. Reset? Ability values? Are those referring to the levels improved by the bonfire?

Every member of the Exploration Team had never heard of a "reset" like this before.

If someone regretted how they allocated their points, maybe they could use the Tear-Drop Young Body. The introduction’s emphasis on extreme rarity also highlighted its value.

But there was a problem—

Half of the Exploration Team had not entered the Sain Dungeon before, and even though they learned about the bonfire’s upgrade mechanism during this exploration, the amount of souls they possessed could only take them up a few levels. Not only was the experience they obtained diluted due to teaming up, but also because everyone was inherently strong, the souls required for leveling counted in tens of thousands.

Even Perry, who ranked the lowest in comprehensive strength, only had enough souls to rise by eight levels.

Were such meager levels truly worth the use of the Tear-Drop Young Body?

Perhaps the value of the Young Body would become apparent once everyone had leveled up more in the Dungeon.

This led to an uncomfortable situation where everyone recognized the item’s value but couldn’t use it, so they did not feel particularly excited.

Just... it felt rather bland.

However, that blandness came to an end when Leon lit the bonfire.

This bonfire did not display any images, yet it healed the status of everyone sitting around it, and...

[Leon]

[Level: 55]

[Life: 10]

[Strength: 13]

[Intelligence: 9]

[Endurance: 7]

[Agility: 10]

[Perception: 6]

"Ah?"

The change was so drastic he jumped up.

What’s going on? Weren’t all his attributes still in single digits at the previous bonfires, where an un-upgraded point was just 1? How did they suddenly increase so much?

He clenched his fist but didn’t feel like he had become super strong.

Could it be that there was an error with the bonfire?

He quickly called the others over to try and found out that everyone’s levels had increased.

Steeran at Level 33, Perry at Level 29, Roger at Level 51, Drew at Level 48, Tal at Level 50...

Yet the amount of souls required for leveling up and everyone’s strength remained the same as before, what exactly was—

Upon touching the bonfire again, a stream of information entered everyone’s minds, and suddenly they understood what was happening.

The third bonfire reflected the numerical manifestation of people’s strengths—if someone was very strong, it would display as such.

While the previous two bonfires treated everyone equally, defaulting all values to one.

Apart from the numerical difference, the mechanisms were largely similar, with the required souls for leveling up unchanged, only allowing one to clearly see their own shortcomings and strengths...

Wait, what about in conjunction with the Tear-Drop Young Body?

In that case, couldn’t one reset all of their abilities!?

Realizing this, everyone’s breathing became heavier.

Many adventurers harbored regrets about their career choices; Magicians wanted to switch to warriors, warriors to assassins, assassins to dabble in alchemy...

But few manage to transition successfully. Once an adventurer has spent time honing a profession, their numeric values begin to change—a Mage’s Intelligence is higher than their other attributes, a warrior’s Life and Strength outweigh Intelligence. If they want to switch professions, they need to train other aspects.

This is very hard, extremely hard.

Is it a curse or a blessing? After long exposure to a certain profession, the body adapts to it, and attributes aligned with the profession increase quickly, whilst those that aren’t become harder to improve.

For example, a warrior’s Intelligence is difficult to boost...

Difficult, but not impossible, yet it requires countless times more effort to increase at a normal training rate.

Researchers call this phenomenon "career adaptation," which inevitably affects everyone in this world.

For adventurers who dislike their current professions, this phenomenon was excremental—who on earth were the Gods who created this world thinking!

Although with double the effort, painstaking effort, desperate efforts, it’s not impossible to become all-rounded, but what adult has the time for that? Living on daily toils is hard enough, and after a day’s work, all one wants is to lie in bed and sleep.

If there was a chance to start over, from the Legendary to the ordinary, countless people would certainly be willing to pay.

Coincidentally, Leon knew an old-timer who utterly detested his profession.

Holding the oddly shaped Tear-Drop Young Body, Leon felt like he had an invitation in his hands—if he could give this item to the old-timer as a favor...

Leon saw an opportunity to mend regrets, but Roger saw something else: if he reallocated the points from a quickly trainable and improvable attribute like Strength to other areas and trained hard to recover the Strength, couldn’t he level up more easily?

No, the Tear-Drop Young Body is marked as extremely rare; such a plan had low feasibility.

He murmured to himself, "But as long as there’s hope, there will always be people,"

Roger carefully stored the Tear-Drop Young Body away, sensing that Sain Dungeon could become the most popular Dungeon ever.

Even if only one in a thousand, or one in ten thousand entrants could obtain a Tear-Drop Young Body, that was enough to drive people mad.

In the City Lord’s room.

"It seems everyone has realized it," Gong Qiying watched people’s reactions, "The otherworlder’s comprehension is not poor,"

"If the bonfire’s upgrade mechanism is purple quality, then resetting is golden legendary, regret medicine has always been scarce."

"Perhaps the Tear-Drop Young Body could lure the high-level forces of this world to come. Should I prepare something in advance?"

Of course, he wasn’t planning a head-on clash with the strong, but rather some petty tricks, such as various traps, monster annoyances, or touching tales to move the strong-hearted, in essence to enhance their spiritual power output.

The stronger the person, the greater the spiritual power, just like an elite like Leon, his spiritual power dispersion from living a day in the Dungeon is more than that of a few ordinary people dying.

As for stronger individuals...

Gong Qiying pondered, "I need to set the drop rate of the Tear-Drop Embryo extremely low, and each one must be managed by me personally. This item is too valuable; I absolutely cannot distribute it unless the spiritual power earned is far beyond the cost."

For now, the Tear-Drop Embryo can be the ultimate signature product of the Sain Dungeon.

As he considered future strategies, he continued watching the scenes unfold on the Crystal Ball.

There are plenty of great items in those treasure chests, and seeing reactions to treasures that suit them is something not to be missed. The adventurers’ expressions must be delightful!

When Gong Qiying was immersed in the live broadcast, he didn’t notice that the altar beneath him was slowly lighting up with a faint glow, as if some change was happening.

[Spiritual power reserves have reached the standard, initiating...]

Molten Furnace Knight BOSS room.

Everyone carefully pocketed the Tear-Drop Embryo and looked around with gleaming eyes.

There was a moment of silence as everyone pondered their own thoughts until Maru reminded them:

"Hurry up and open the treasure chests; the Dungeon is about to close!"

The adventurers snapped back to reality, eyeing the private booths, just enough for one each.

"How about one for each person? Pick any."

"What if I get something I don’t want, can we trade, don’t be so rigid, huh?"

"Sure, sure,"

In reality, the items in these treasure chests change according to who opens them.

Steeran was the first to open the chest, and what appeared before her was —

[Black Bow]

[Combat Skill: Continuous Shooting]

[The bow, sharp as a blade and light in weight, can tear through raging winds. Although it is a longbow, it can be used like a short bow.]

[War Ash: Arrow Rain]

[A combat skill in which you lower your body and draw the bow, assuming a stance and then firing multiple arrows into the sky in one breath. The arrows rain down from above like a fierce storm.]

[Crafting recipes for the Beast Bone Hypnotic Arrow, Beast Bone Bleeding Arrow, Beast Bone Poison Arrow] (Materials evolve into otherworld materials)

"It feels pretty good," she said, picking up the Black Bow to try it out. Although it was somewhat difficult to operate, it felt infinitely better in her hands than her current longbow.

Was War Ash Arrow Rain supposed to be used with it? Forget it, I’ll test Continuous Shooting later before deciding whether to replace War Ash.

Roger opened his chest and pulled out several spheres that looked similar to Elf Balls with a bizarre expression.

[Super Ball x2], [Heavy Ball x2], [Elf Ball x4]

[Magic: Surprise Attack Magic Gravel]

[A spell from the town of Celia, known for its nighttime magic, capable of consecutively launching gravel that stealthily attacks the enemy from behind. It is said that Celia’s Magicians are assassins and their targets are fellow Magicians.]

He was already an expert in Invisibility Assassination magic, and now he had acquired Surprise Attack Magic Gravel.

Isn’t this just nudging him further along the sinister path?

What are these Super Balls? An upgraded version of Elf Balls? Such precious treasures come in batches!?

Roger, like treating his own children, gingerly put the various colors of Elf Balls into his waist pouch.

Tal took out a strangely shaped hammer from the chest and smiled contentedly after weighing it in his hand.

[Flame Feather Hammer] (Barbaric Jaw Dragon Hammer)

Maru’s hands held two ugly-looking curved swords, and her face instantly drooped.

[Corpse Stripping Curved Sword x2]

[Combat Skill: Blood Slash]

[A curved sword with a jagged edge, a weapon of scavengers who wander amongst battlefield ruins.]

The Flame Cultivator fell to his knees on the ground, loudly praising his God as he acquired the following treasures:

[Prayer: Oh flame, grant me strength], [Prayer: The healing of flames], [Sorcery Fire], [Fire Throwing]

The Holy Light Knight took out a cross from the chest, his expression complicated.

In the Church’s legends, the Holy Light God was once tortured by the Evil God on the cross.

So... in his eyes, the cross was still quite blasphemous.

"I must get scrolls that instantly teach magic, they must be it," Perry muttered quietly.

Although he always said that magic should be learned in detail bit by bit, in his heart, he yearned for a way like the [Thunder Spear], which would allow him quickly to learn new skills.

What’s this about being a diligent student? He didn’t want to be one!

Yet, in front of him appeared —

[Crystal Scroll]

[A scroll that records Crystal Magic, those who study diligently should benefit greatly.]

Perry was dumbfounded and let out a wail to the heavens.

Drew glanced at Perry and then at his hands holding the [Ancient Scroll] and said:

"Youngsters should put in some effort."

Leon watched his companions’ reactions, nervously opened his chest.

Yet, three purple light points quietly lay inside the chest, delighting him as he picked them up and looked.

[War Ash: Great Calia]

[A combat skill symbolizing the Caelia Royal Family. It turns the sword into a Magic Greatsword and then swings downward to crush all enemies.]

[Saw Meat Blade]

[A peculiar weapon used by Hunters, covered with non-human blood, maybe it can transform during battle.]

These things seem to be strong; Leon was even more excited about the next reward and quickly grabbed the purple light points.

[Recipe for crafting a Feces Pot]

Leon: "???"